Abstract:

Luo Xiaojia was abducted as a 17-year-old girl and trafficked from the Yi nationality region of Yunnan to Shandong province where she was forced to marry a young peasant.  The film records her family life in Shandong and her longing for her far away hometown, which causes her to reflect on the uncertainties of fate.  Finally, after ten years living in Shandong, she is allowed to go home for the first time.  She travels the long journey and returns to Yunnan, seeing her mother, whom she had missed for so many days and nights.  she struggles over the decision to go back to Shandong or to stay in Yunnan.  Sadly she decides to return to Shandong, accompanied by her mother's mournful folk songs.